Free versus pedicled omental grafts for limb salvage in Buerger's disease

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-40

  Talwar, S ^a,b   Jain, S ^a   Porwal, R ^a   Laddha, B L ^a   Prasad, P ^a  

^a J L N MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Omentum; Thrombo angiitis obliterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUERGER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB SALVAGE; OMENTUM; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULCER; ULCER HEALING;

EID: 0031983890     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1998.tb04634.x     Document Type: Article

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